artists

Verena Herterich (DE/AT)

lives and works as a dancer, performer, choreographer and cultural worker in Vienna. With a radical dedication to physicality as a strategy, she explores the unfolding of (social) spaces and the detachment from categories and attributions. She studied Contemporary Dance and Ballet (BA) at the MUK Vienna and the AHK Amsterdam as well as Social Design (MA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work has been shown at Tanzquartier Wien, WUK Vienna, Dock11 Berlin and Brut Wien (imagetanz – handle with care), among others. Her artistic practice has been supported by a BMKOES „Start“-scholarship of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (2021), the Huggy Bears Vienna Residency Program (2022) and a LifeLongBurning Research Residency and the PRÉAC seminar at ICI-CCN Montpellier-Occitanie (2024). Since the end of 2023, she is part of the artist initiative Im_flieger – Free Space und Experimental Ground for Dance, Performance und Transmedia Art. As a dancer/performer, she has worked with artists such as Guy Weizman & Roni Haver (Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club), Ingri Fiksdal, Linda Samaraweerová, Claudia Bosse, Christine Gaigg, Joanna Zabielska and since 2024 regularly for Liquid Loft/Chris Haring.